Comics The Sunday Funnies (8/1/10) by Jerry Beck Sunday August 1, 2010 12:05 am Each week we highlight several of the print cartoons, comicstrips and panels that reflect the world of animation. This week …
Events Moonshine – a blog, a book and a gallery show by Jerry Beck Saturday July 31, 2010 6:00 pm Animation viz-dev artist Goro Fujita tells us that he and 44other artists from Dreamworks are having a gallery show at …
Books Don Graham’s “Composing Pictures” is Reprinted by Amid Amidi Friday July 30, 2010 2:36 am I don’t know how this news passed me by, but Don Graham’sclassic book about composition called Composing Pictures is back …
Cartoon Culture Popeye Carousel Rocket by Jerry Beck Friday July 30, 2010 12:30 am I was hanging out with my friends Will Ryan and Tom Knott thismorning and we dropped into one of my favorite places on …
Events TUESDAY 8/3: Dirty Duck screening with Chuck Swenson by Jerry Beck Thursday July 29, 2010 7:00 pm Next Tuesday, the CineFamily will present a rare 35mm screeningof Chuck Swenson’s Dirty Duck (aka Down And Dirty Duck, …
Events Voice Actor panel and Chuck Jones cartoons @ Academy by Jerry Beck Thursday July 29, 2010 3:30 am The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be hostingtwo back-to-back animation events in August. The first, on …
Bad Ideas Horrifying Yogi Bear Trailer by Jerry Beck Wednesday July 28, 2010 5:00 pm This looks like ____ ! (fill in the blank in the commentsbelow)! (Thanks, Paul Dini)
Advertising NBC Peacock ID by Nathan Love by Amid Amidi Wednesday July 28, 2010 4:28 am Nathan Love created this uncommonly appealing NBC station ID incollaboration with NBC ArtWorks, the on-air graphics …
Business Animation Collective’s Larry Schwarz Sends Us Cease and Desist by Amid Amidi Wednesday July 28, 2010 2:20 am Animation studio owner Larry Schwarz (pictured above in thesombrero) wasn’t pleased with our story from a couple days ago …
Bad Ideas Yogi Bear movie poster by Jerry Beck Tuesday July 27, 2010 6:00 pm Smarter-than-the-average comments welcome below.
Animators Shirley Silvey and Mary Schuster Broggie, R.I.P. by Amid Amidi Tuesday July 27, 2010 2:23 pm Two important women in animation passed awayrecently: Shirley Silvey died on July 17 in Fresno, …
Animators Lawless Street by Christyan Lundblad by Jerry Beck Tuesday July 27, 2010 12:00 pm I really like the designs Danish artist Christyan Lundblad hasposted on his blog. Here is a student film Lundblad did a few …
Music Videos “Scattered” by andmapsandplans by Amid Amidi Tuesday July 27, 2010 4:01 am Andmapsandplans, aka Adrien Merigeau and Alan Holly, createdthis airy and evocative video for Jennifer Evans’s song …
Shorts Think or Sink: The Flebus of Famous Studios by Amid Amidi Monday July 26, 2010 10:45 pm Usually, the posts about Famous Studios are reserved for Jerry,but just this once, I have to share a Famous short. I ran …
Business Animation Collective Gets Sued by Artist Over “Ellen’s Acres” by Amid Amidi Monday July 26, 2010 4:21 pm Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Brooklyn-basedanimation artist Kelly Denato (above left), is suing the New …